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Archive for April, 2009

These are my links for April 21st from 11:29 to 12:15: Zuora’s online billing service gets 100 new features as it lands 100th customer » VentureBeat – Zuora, a startup that offers online software to help companies automate subscriptions and billing, is releasing version 2.0 of its lead product, Z-Billing, complete with what it says [...]

These are my links for April 17th through April 21st: sim on demand – Part 1 » OpenSim news – This is very cool for K12 Education… OpenSim on EC2 – Sim-OnDemand Personal Virtual World Server – is a ready-to-use pre-configured packaging of OpenSim deployed on Amazon's robust infrastructure. Sim-OnDemand comes with a GUI based [...]

Hueniverse: Introducing 'Sign-in with Twitter', OAuth-Style "Connect" With this small enhancement of the Twitter OAuth API, Twitter created a product that directly competes with Facebook Connect. The implementation details are significantly different (and there are some technical shortcoming on both sides), but there is little you can do with one and not the other.

Private cloud replaces antiquated IT infrastructure for $300K per year So starting two years ago, the IT department, working with an advisory council of local IT experts, laid out more than a dozen objectives it needed to achieve in the 36 months to support student growth and increased mobility, add disaster recovery and replace antiquated [...]

These are my links for April 14th from 09:42 to 11:05: Enterprise Computing: EMC Announced Next Generation V-Max Architecture « The Storage Architect – So, the announcements have started; EMC have unveiled their next-generation version of the Symmetrix high-end storage array family and it is called the V-Max. People Over Process » Cloud Computing and [...]